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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need access to sub-folders while uploading/selecting files in PAW

While working in PAW I know that we can drag and drop files from local to the shared folder wherein in the back-end a folder gets updated named ' Model_Upload'. Now, I have file consists of multiple division named (HR , Finance & R&D). In ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQLDB instance

JNetDirect driver is fairly old in Cognos BI, so it would very nice to have does updated to support using Microsoft Azure SQL DB instances as contentstore.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Allow tenant switch without the loss of my content

Setup=====We use a multi-tenant environment for different customers with the same database.There are some special customers (service provider), they have access for more than one tenant (but not for all).For this purpose we are using a customized ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Container for New Cognos Mobile App

Does the development team for Cognos Analytics for Mobile have anything on the app’s roadmap to add support for Intune app protection policies? According to the developer guidance on github, it would require the mobile app developer to make use of...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add the functionality “Copy and Paste to the clipboard and vice versa” in google Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers for TM1 Web Applications

Why it is Needed: As we saw in some blog that Internet explorer is going to be decommissioned by next year, all the users will use google chrome as alternative for TM1 Web. Please see blog link below. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/articl...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Git and GitHub to supported source code systems for DS IDE client

From within the Datastage development client IDE provide support for GitHub and Git into the development UI to allow use of Git as the source code control system when developing jobs, in IS v11.5
over 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration